Some of you may already be familiar with the concept of a RAM disk, which basically means using part of your RAM as a disk drive. The reason to do this is that RAM is much faster than most hard drives, including SSDs -- sometimes 20 or 30 times faster than SSDs.

RAM disks are a great way to improve video playback. One of the performance bottlenecks of playing videos is that they usually have to be read from the disk drive as they are played. For high-quality videos, the slowness of the drive can result in dropped frames. Using a RAM disk often completely eliminates this problem.

As the article explains, the disadvantage of a RAM disk is that it is temporary. It disappears when the computer is rebooted, and everything has to be recopied. However, you can use a third-party application to manage it, so that the recopying happens automatically.

RAM disks are useful not only for Magic, but for any application that does real-time video manipulation. Try it out and see how it works for you.

Yup, it could definitely be faster for rendering, especially for large files. But if you want to keep the files permanently, you'll have to copy them out of the RAM disk, and it will take some time. So you'll need to calculate whether or not it actually saves time in the long run.